River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-05-26
FULL TEXT.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE. LAW.

INTERSTATE COMMERCE LAW.
Passed by the senate January Il, 1887;
Passed by the House january "a. 1887;
Approved by the President February a,
1857
TO WHOM APPLICABLE.
nE n ENACTED m THE SENATE AID HOUSE or
REPRESENTA- ATTN rs or THE UNITED STATES on
AMERICA IL CONGRESS ASSEMBLED. That the
provisions OF this act shall apply 10 any
common carrier or carriers engaged ~ the
transportation OF passengers or property
wholly by railroad, on partly by railroad
and partly by water when both are used,
undera common control, management, or
arrangement, for a CONTINUOUS carriage or
shipment, from one State or Territory OF
the United States, or the District of Column
hia, to any other State or Territory of the
United States, or the District of Columbia,
or from any place in the United states, 20
an adjacent foreign country, or from any
place in the United States through foreign
country 10 any other place IN the United
States, and also 10 the transportation IN like
manner of property shipped from any place
in the United States, 20 a foreign country
and carried from such place to port OF
trans shipment, or shipped from Foreign
country to any place in the United States
and carried to such place from port OF en-
/ try either in the United States or an ada
cent foreign country Provided, however,
| that the provisions of this act shall not APP
| ply to the transportation of passengers or
| property, or 10 the receiving, delivering,
/ storage, or handling of property, wholly
| within one state, and not shipped 70 or
/ from foreign country from or TO any state
| or Territory as aforesaid.
RAILROAD AND TRANSPORTATION DEFINED.
| The term railroad as used in this act
shall include all bridges and ferries used or
| operated in connection with any railroad,
/ and also all the road in use by any corpo-
ration, operating railroad whether owned
/ or operated under a contract, agreement,
/ or lease; and the term transportation
! shall include all instrumentalities OF ship
ment or carriage
REASONABLE AND JUST CHARGES.
All charges made for any service rem
| dered or TO be rendered in the Transports
| ton of passengers OF property as aforesaid,
or in connection Herewith, or for the re
| ceiVing, delivering, storage, or handling OF
such property, shall be reasonable and JUST
and every unjust and unreasonable charge
for such service is prohibited and declared
TO be unlawful.
| SPECIAL RATES, DRAWBACKS, UNJUST DIsCRlM
| NATION.
Sec ,. That il any common carrier sub
Ject to the provisions OF this act 81 II, Ill
Isctly or indirectly, by any special ate, re
bate, drawback, or other device, charge, de
mand, collect, or receive from any person
or persons II greater or less compensation
for any service rendered. OF to be rendered
i'm the transportation of passengers or prop
erty subject TO the provisions OF this act
| than it charges, demands, collects, or re
ceives from any other person or persons foi
| doing for him or them like and contem
pOraneons service in the transportation 81 Z
like kind of traffic under substantially sim
/ liar circumstances and conditions, Suci
common carrier shall be deemed guilty o
unjust discrimination, which Is hereby pro
hibited and declared to be unlawful,
UNDUE OR UNREASONABLE PREFERENCES.
Sec 3. That il shall be unlawful for any
common carrier subject to the provisions o
this act 10 make or give any undue or un
reasonable preference or advantage to any
particular person, company, firm, corpora
ton, or locality, or any particular descrp
ton Of traffic, in any respect whatsoever, 81
10 subject any particular person, company
firm, corporation, or locality, or any par
ticular description of traffic, 90 any undu
on unreasonable prejudice or disadvantag
in any respect whatsoever.
INTERCHANGE OF TRAFFIC.
Every common carrier subject TO the pro
visions Of this act shall, according to thei
respective powers. afford all reasonable
proper, and equal facilities for the inter
change Of traffic between their re
| spective lines and for the receiving, for
I .
property to and from their several line
and those connecting Herewith, aud shall
not discriminate in their rates and charge
between such connecting llnesi but TIN
shall not be construed as requiring any sucl
common carrier 10 give the use of its tract
or terminal facilities to another carrier en-
gagged in like business,
LoSG AND SHORT HAUL.
Sec. 4. That it shall be unlawful for AM
common carrier subject to the provisions o
this act to charge or receive any create
compensation in the aggregate for th'
transportation of passengers or OF like Kline
of property under substantially smiial
circumstances and conditions, for shorter
than for a longer distan over the sam'
line, in the same objection, the shorter
being included within the longer distance
but this shall not be construed as authOilZ
ing any common carrier within the terms
of this act to charge and receive as great
compensation for a shorter as for a longer
distance provided, however, that upon ap
plication to the commission appointed
under the provisions of this act such com
mon carrier may, in special cases, after in
vestigatiOn by the commission, be author
lied to charge less for longer than fol
shorter distances for transportation of pas
sengers or property; and the commission
NAV from time to time prescribe the extent
to which said designated common carrier
may be relieved from the operation OF this
section of this act.
POOLING OF FRElfHTs
Sec >. That it shall be uniawful for any
common carrier subject 70 the provisions Of
Ills act to enter into any contract, agree
Z Inent or combination wlth any other con-
mon carrier or carriers for the pooling OF
freights of different and competing rail
roads or to divide between them the
| aggregate or net proceeds of the earnings ol
such railroads, or any portion thereof; and
in any case of an agreement for the pool
ing Of freights as aforesaid each day OF its
continuance shall be deemed a separate
| otfense.
SCHEDULES OF RATES TO BE MADE PUBLIC.
Sec. G. That every common carrier sub.
ieet to the provisions Of this act shall print
| and keep for public inspection schedules
! showing the rates and fares and charges for
the transportation Of passengers and prop.
erty which any such common carrier has
| established and which are in force at the
time upon its railroad, as defined by the
first section of this act. The schedules
! printed as aforesaid by any such common
/ carrier shall plainly state the places upon
its railroad between which property and
passengers viii be carried, and shall con
! tain the classification Of freight in force
| upon such railroad. and shall also state
separately the terminal charges and any
( rules or regulations which IN any wise
| change, affect, r determine any part OF the
aggregate of sUch aforesaid rates and
| fares and charges. Such schedules shall be
| plainly printed IN large type, or at least the
I size of ordinary plea, and copies for the use
Of the public shall be kept in every depot or
l station uDon any such railroad, in such
| places and in s'Ith form that they can be
/ conveniently inspected.
| RATES TO 70 aEIGN COUNTRIES.
! ANY common GO ..~ier subject TO the pro
visions of this act re, eiving freight in the
! United Stats 20 be carried through a
! foreign county to any place in the United
States shall also in like manner print and
/ keep for public inspection, at every depot
/ where such freightls received for shipment,
/ schedules showing the through rates estab-
/ lished and charged hy such common carrier
/ to all points in the United states beyond
/ the foreign country 10 which II accepts
4 freight for shipment; and any freight
/ shipped from the United States through a
I foreign country into the United states, the
! through rate on which shall not have been
/ made public as required by this act, shall,
! before 10 is admitted into the United States
/ from said foreign country, be subject to
customs duties as if said freight were OF
/ foreign production; and any law IN conflict
/ with this section is hereby repealed.
/ ADVANCES N RATEs-TEN DAYS NOTICE.
! No advance shall be made in the rates,
/ fares, and charges which have been estab-
lished and published as aforesaid by
/ any common carrier, in compliance with
/ the requirements of this section, except
I after ten days public notice, which shall
I plainly state the changes proposed TO be
made in the schedule then in force, and
time when the increased rates, fares, or
/ charges viii 60 into effect; and the proposed
changes stall bS shown by printing new
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